by TReND | May 11, 2016 | Announcements, Blog Posts, IMPORT, Outreach, Uncategorized, Volunteering
Over the past few weeks and months we are pleased to have secured a number of funding options for projects to take place in late 2016 and early 2017. These include the next installment of our traditional Neuroscience course in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, a Molecular...
by TReND | Apr 25, 2016 | Announcements, Blog Posts, Training, Volunteering
Towards the end of last year, TReND’s Lukas von Tobel spent a month at KIU Ishaka, Uganda to teach a course on the genetics and neurobiology of the nematode C.elegans, a powerful model system in modern Neuroscience. Read about his experiences here! “In...
by TReND | Mar 23, 2016 | Announcements, Blog Posts, IMPORT, Outreach, Uncategorized, Volunteering
TReND Alumni and Volunteers organised a hands-on outreach event at Maude International School, Zaria, Nigeria, to introduce teachers and students to simple and fun science experiments adoptable to the classroom. We are very excited that over 150 participants were...
by TReND | Mar 9, 2016 | Announcements, Blog Posts, Publications, Uncategorized
Following our attendance at the GOSH2016 Open Hardware conference at CERN, Geneva last week we are pleased to see two of our Open Source lab equipment designs featured as the title image on Nature News’ conference Article. Link to Article here. Highlighted projects...
by TReND | Mar 7, 2016 | Announcements, Blog Posts, Publications, Training, Uncategorized, Volunteering
Last September, TReND welcomed 15 students to the first Scientific Writing and Communication Course. These scientists, selected from a very large number of applications came from six African countries including Malawi, Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic...
by TReND | Jan 19, 2016 | Announcements, Blog Posts, Publications, Training, Uncategorized, Volunteering
We are delighted to see Jelena’s report of our bioinformatics courses up on the Planet Earth Institute (PEI) website. The PEI part-funded our recent course at icipe, Nairobi, Kenya which had received over 400 applicants for only 40 spaces. See the full...
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